For those who rely on these treatments, affordable medication access is a matter of health, freedom, and dignity, and their mechanisms and outcomes are non-partisan. The post Financial Security, Lasting Relief: How the Inflation Reduction Act Restores Health to Patients and Hope to Their Doctors appeared first on MedCity News.
This data note provides new information about waiting lists for Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services, including a discussion of why waiting lists are an incomplete measure of unmet need and why they are not necessarily comparable across states or over time.
Conservative groups are working to undermine support for Montana’s Medicaid expansion in hopes the state will abandon the program. The rollback would be the first in the decade since the Affordable Care Act began allowing states to cover more people with low incomes. Montana’s expansion, which insures roughly 78,800 people, is set to expire next…
If you dare, feast your eyes on this year’s winners of KFF Health News’ sixth annual Halloween Haiku contest. We received more than four dozen spooky submissions but only a few bubbled to the top of the cauldron. Here’s the winner and the top runners-up, illustrated by Oona Zenda. The judges’ favorites were inspired by…
When Cynthia Ruiz turns on her kitchen faucet, she hears a slight squeak before cloudy fluid bursts out of the spout. The water in her Central Valley town of East Orosi is clean enough most of the time to wash dishes, flush toilets, and take showers, but it’s not safe to swallow. Drinking water is…
The city of Beverly Hills has agreed to train its employees on abortion clinic protections after local officials interfered with the opening of an abortion clinic in “blatant” violation of state law, according to a proposed settlement to be unveiled Thursday by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Bonta’s office said the city’s then-mayor, city attorney,…
That is the clever title of recent American Economic Review publication by Cyrus Aghamolla, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Xuelin Li, Richard T. Thakor. The abstract is below. This study examines the link between credit supply and hospital health outcomes. We use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to credit access for hospitals that have lending relationships with…
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday October 31 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are patient advocate Robin Farmanfarmaian (@Robinff3); health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn (@healthythinker); futurist Jeff Goldsmith: and digital health guru Fard Johnmar (@fardj). Yes, it’s the pre-election special on Halloween! You can see the video below live (and later archived) & if you’d…
After the FDA delayed the approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, there’s still a way forward for psychedelic medicines, experts said at HLTH. The post What’s Next for Psychedelic Medicines? appeared first on MedCity News.
The FDA had asked Biogen and Sage Therapeutics to provide more clinical data supporting Zurzuvae in major depressive disorder. Citing the time and expense of additional clinical trials, the partners decided against further development in this indication The post Biogen, Sage Therapeutics Drop Plans to Develop Partnered Drug in Major Depressive Disorder appeared first on…